You're looking at the wrong thing friend. Please see the email I sent out yesturday entitled "polled ide bootloader" or something to that effect. It has an address on it which will get you to the source for a GPL bootloader that will work. Directions are in there on how to use it. Please see previous discussions on this list about how to use elf images in LinuxBIOS.
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Gregg C Levine wrote: > Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers > Okay, I have found your website, Adam, and have looked at its contents. > So one question springs to mind. How do I actually boot the > "redboot.ebi" image? Is it an elf image? Or a net bootable one? For the > sake those who have joined late, as I have, I have left the original > discussion quoted below. Flames to me please. > Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "You came in that thing? You're braver then I thought." > > Adam Agnew wrote: > > > > I'll resend this message as I believe it was lost. Please see Ron's > > response about turning the IDE controllers on in the mainboard section. > > > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Adam Agnew wrote: > > > > > > > > Yeah, something has happened with this. I have code that will do what we > > > want but I can't release it because of licensing issues. I pulled code out > > > of RedBoot and grafted it into etherboot. Redboot is supposed to go LGPL > > > "real soon now".. I don't expect real soon now to be fast enough though, > > > so now I'm replacing that RedBoot code (which is all file system > > > junk than a polled ide driver) with Grub code (the redboot ext2 code > > > isn't that great anyway), and if redboot isn't dual liscensed with lgpl > > > still when i'm done that i'll rewrite the polled ide access code myself. > > > Then I think it's safe to release it. So it's in the works for release and > > > certainly works right now. > > > > > > Any chipset that wants to use it will need to turn its IDE controllers on > > > first. If your chipset doesn't have its ide controllers turned on in > > > linuxbios, you need to do that. You can test to see if your IDE > > > controllers are turned on successfully with an image i made of RedBoot in > > > http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/~agnew/redboot.ebi by typing "disks" when > > > redboot comes up. If it shows you your partition table, it worked. > > > > > > - adam > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Nick French wrote: > > > > > > > Has anything happened with this. We have some DOM's and would like to use > > > > the stock flash part that comes with the board. David now have one our > > > > 810LMR board running with the DOC. The following link seems to be dead from > > > > here. > > > > > > > > http://www.linuxforum.com/plug/articles/nuni.html > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > Nick > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Adam Agnew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: "Eric W. Biederman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Cc: "Ronald G Minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:16 PM > > > > Subject: Re: K7+sis730 combo+32DIP > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think what we want is called Nuni. > > > > > http://www.linuxforum.com/plug/articles/nuni.html > > > > > > > > > > It's written in nasm and pretty straight forward. i've been working on > > > > > converting it to an elf compatible format, switching the video io to > > > > > serial, and adding a delay for the time anticipated to have the hard > > > > > drives spin up, but haven't gotten it quite right yet. It looks to be just > > > > > what we need in the most minimalist fashion. > > > > > > > > > > (it will only work on lba compatible ide drives by the way) > > > > > > > > > > I've also tried contacting the author but haven't been able to get through > > > > > to him yet. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 8 Aug 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Anybody seen a new motherboard for sis 730 that has 32dip? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This 256KB FLASH thing is getting to be more, not less of a problem. > > > > > > > Anybody out there have a clever idea on how to get around it? > > > > > > > > > > > > I guess as I see it. linuxBIOS is small. We just need to make certain > > > > > > we have a bootloader that is also small. > > > > > > > > > > > > A unix style kernel without a network stack can be small enough to fit > > > > > > comfortably in 32KB uncompressed. So it becomes a matter of getting > > > > > > a small unix kernel we can use. For what we want to do that is really > > > > > > the long term solution. We just need to either send the linux kernel > > > > > > on a diet (my prefered option) or start with something like uzix and > > > > > > build it up to the point we can use it. > > > > > > > > > > > > Being safe from the becoming a hacked operating system problem is more > > > > > > important than reusing drivers. Though being able to reuse drivers is > > > > > > nice. And as long as we limit ourselves to a certain subset of the > > > > > > common cases so we only need to write drivers for industry standard > > > > > > hardware we are in good shape. > > > > > > > > > > > > Eric > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
